, 1887-12-28

estate, are not always employed eat work,
when they will but any planter requiring
4 certain number of labourers for a parti.
GUAR purpose, foS instance holing land, ats
favourable time, must. certainly have
free hands to employ any number he re-
quires just for that work and when it is
completed, then they leave him to go to
some other planter; but he would chal-
lenge the honorable CrOwnmember to
show up one single instance where d
labOurer here in st. Croix has been unable
to get full occupation when he really wants
to work. Turning now to the poDt re.
gArding labourers going from Estates in
the West to farm on their w risk in the
Cast, which implies that the Factory will
remove the Fairplain Station to Eastend,
it appeared in the first place certain, that
the Factory is not going tn the expense for
that purpose before canes i'm sufficient
quantities are secured, and we may be
sure that labourers will not fail to embrace
the chance offered them; and it is evident
that the Estates supply will be thinned
considerably. He could see nc reason why
we should keep back this Draft by send
ing it to a committee. If more infOr-
nation is wanted such may be had
now and we have now heard the mum
Der of persons lost for agricultural pursuits
stated to be 1900; this indicates what or
how the supply should be. He would re.
commend that the matter goes OH direct
to vote.
End Member for ChristiansteA Lemming)
said he had waited some time before MAX
ing the remarks he had to offer, in O, der
to see if no one else would have come for
ward with anything in that respect; as no
one had taken the word to that effect, he
would beg to make a few remarks in re.
spect to what 2 Members of this Council
had allowed themselves to say to-day. The
one Memberha stated that whenever things
are lone for st. CrOix it is only done when
done by the Government, and that he had not
seen any liberal support given to anything
of benefit to planting interest. The other
Member had remarked that Denmark has
done nothing for this colony. Those re-
marks are very unjust, and more unjust
because they fell from two planters; for,
it is u we'll known fact to every one who
knOwns any thing of st. Oroix from the
beginning up to now, that IN hard times,
or whenever the island has had Difficult
ties in it's way, it has always been upper.
most with the local Government and the
Ministry to protect and preserve the Agri-
cultural interests and particularly the
planters of the Island. We can all remem.
Der how, in the dry years, which we
experienced in the seventies, advances
were made, not from the Colonial
Treasury but from the StatetreaSury, of
large amounts to save the agricultu.
raj interests and planters; we know that
the Municipality is now indebted for ad.
vances made to an amount, which We ought
to know, but which he would not now
name, and without which the M%Qnicipali-
ty could not have existed. 1t ia therefore
unjust to say that Denmark has done
nothing for the colony, With reference to
the other remark, he would say, that
whenever any public matter of benefit to
the community, or any part of The commu.
nifty was to be- carried out, it has always
been done, whether it had its origin with
the Government or any where else, prOvid-
ed only the measure was approvable; there.
fore it is unjust to say that only such
things which the Government does or
wants are carried. out. The Government
HAS aln ..ys carried out beneficial measures,
whether they originated with the Govern.
ment. or originated i1 privnte initiative.
ard Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (SUitser) said that neither had he in
tended to take part in I'll eSe discussions but
al the honorable last Speaker had alluded
to the loans which had been givvA planters
on bureau, and as be (Svitzer) had been
among those who received such loan, and
which he for his part had paid back to the
Treasury with interest, he found that it